CS Other Presentations

Department of Computer Science - University of Cyprus

Besides Colloquiums, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus also holds Other Presentations (Research Seminars, PhD Defenses, Short Term Courses, Demonstrations, etc.). These presentations are given by scientists who aim to present preliminary results of their research work and/or other technical material. Other Presentations serve as a forum for educating Computer Science students and related announcements are disseminated to the Department of Computer Science (i.e., the csall list):
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Presentations Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour

PhD Defense: Unsupervised Extraction and Analysis of Polarization in Large-Scale Text-based Corpora with Applications to Misinformation Detection, Mr. Demetris Paschalides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 10.00-11.00 EET.

PhD Defense: Explainable AI modelling in the assessment of Multiple Sclerosis using clinical data and Brain MRI lesion texture features, Andria Nicolaou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 2, 2024, 08.30-09.30 EET.

PhD Defense: A Data-driven IoT Architecture for Self-Consumption of Renewable Energy, Mr. Soteris Constantinou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, July 2, 2024, 10:00-11:00 EEST.

PhD Defense: Multimodal Generation of Realistic Human Bodies, Nefeli Andreou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, July 1, 2024, 14:00-15:00 EET.

PhD Defense: A Framework for the Detection, Localization, and Recovery of Jamming Attacks in the Internet of Things, Mr. Michalis Savva (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, June 27, 2024, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Virtual Reality Gaming based on Brain-Computer Interfacing and the Role of Cognitive Skills, Mr. Marios Hadjiaros (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 09.00-10.00 EET.

PhD Defense: Advancing AI Explainability with an Argumentation-based Machine Learning approach and its application in the medical domain, Mrs. Nicoletta Prentzas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, April 29, 2024, 09:00-10:00 EET.

Presentation: Graph-based Neural Network Models for 3D Shape Segmentation, Mr. Marios Loizou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, April 26, 2024, 14:30-15:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Hardening Modern Systems and Services for Protecting User Privacy, Mr. Antreas Dionysiou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, March 1, 2024, 10:00-11:00 EET.

PhD Defense: A Framework for Blockchain-Based Data-Driven Fault Tolerant Control in the Industrial Internet of Things Enabled Smart Factories, Mr. Abdullah Bin Masood (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, February 23, 2024, 11.30-12.30 EET.

PhD Defense: AM-FM Medical Image Analysis, Kyriacos Constantinou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Towards Privacy-Aware Usage of Fitness Trackers and Smart Home Devices: Enhancing User Awareness in the GDPR Era, Mrs. Alexia Dini (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, June 9, 2023, 10.00-11.00 EEST.

PhD Defense: Emulating Data-intensive IoT Applications across the Edge Continuum, Moysis Symeonides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 19, 2022, 10:00-11:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Utilizing Mobile Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT Networks, Natalie Temene (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 12, 2022, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Seminar: Convolutional neural networks with Hessian-free optimization for detecting Alzheimer’s disease in brain MRI, Dr. Maria Constantinou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 16:30-17:30 EET.

Seminar: Towards an Automatically-recovering Byzantine-tolerant Blockchain Infrastructure, Dr. Ioannis Marcoullis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 18:00-19:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Personalized Cued-Recall Graphical User Authentication based on Image Content Familiarity, Mr. Argyris Constantinides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, April 05, 2022, 12:00-13:00 EET.

Seminar: COLLABORATE Project Final Seminar, Assoc. Prof. Chryssis Georgiou (UCY), Dr. Nicolas Nicolaou (Algolysis), Ms. Andria Trigeorgi (UCY), Dr. Marko Kristc (Algolysis) (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 18:00-19:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Automatic Emotion Recognition from Body Movements, Mr. Haris Zacharatos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, August 27, 2021, 10:00-11:00 EET.

PhD Defense: A novel Distributed Artificial Intelligence framework with Machine Learning for 5G/6G communication, Mr. Iacovos Ioannou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, July 22, 2021, 10.00-11.00 EET.

Seminar: Interactive Example-driven Exploration over Structured and Unstructured Data, Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Friday, July 23, 2021, 11:00-12:00 EET.

Seminar: Artificial Intelligence at Bloomberg: News and Analytics, Dr. Kyriakos Karenos (Bloomberg LP, UK), Thursday, June 3, 2021, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Reversible Computation in Petri nets, Ms. Kyriaki Psara (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, December 18, 2020, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Physically-Based Probabilistic Image Segmentation, Mr. Nikolas Ladas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 09.30-10.30 EET.

PhD Defense: Total Cost of Ownership Optimization for Edge and Cloud Data-Centers, Mrs. Panagiota Nikolaou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, December 6, 2019, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Seminar: Oracle, Cloud, AI and the future of the DBA, Dr. Georgos Chatzimilioudis (Oracle, Cyprus), Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Machine Learning for Privacy Preserving Data Publishing and the Analysis of Categorical Data in the Medical Domain, Mr. Aristos Aristodimou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, November 28, 2019, 10:30-11:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Harnessing Electromagnetic Emanations for Power-Delivery Network Characterization, Mr. Zacharias Hadjilambrou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, November 8, 2019, 10:00-11:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Conditional Generative Denoising Autoencoder, Mr. Savvas Karatsiolis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, October 25, 2019, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Seminar: Using Coding Theory to Get the Most Out of Non-volatile Memories, Mr. George Mappouras (Duke University, USA), Monday, September 16, 2019, 10:00-11:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Learning Schemes for Efficiently Training Neural Networks for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction, Mr. Michalis Agathocleous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, May 31, 2019, 10.00-11.00 EET.

PhD Defense: A Model-Driven Development Framework for Automated Design and Development of Ubiquitous Context-Aware Recommender Systems for Commerce, Mr. Christos Mettouris (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, December 14, 2018, 10:00-11:00 EET.

C4E Colloquia: What's Next for the Net? Security, Reliability, Capability, Performance, Flexibility and More, Mr. Martin Levy and Dr. Michael R. Nelson (Cloudflare, USA), Friday, September 21, 2018, 10:30-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Self-Stabilizing State Machine Replication in Static and Reconfigurable Asynchronous Message-Passing Systems, Mr. Ioannis Marcoullis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 10.00-11.00 EET.

PhD Defense: Algorithms and Indexing Structures for Spatial Big Data, Mr. Constantinos Costa (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, July 2, 2018, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Invited Talk: Algorithms and Optimizations for Incremental Window-Based Aggregations, Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Improving the Performance of Single and Multi-Application Workloads on Heterogeneous Clustered Many-Core Platforms, Mr. Panayiotis Petrides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, May 4, 2018, 09:00-10:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Online Social Networks Analysis: Extracting Insights and Evolution Trends, Mr. Hariton Efstathiades (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 15:00-16:00 EET.

Tutorial: Particle Swarm Optimization: A Multi-Purpose Optimization Approach, Prof. Andries Engelbrecht (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 09:30-13:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Low-Cost Approximate and Adaptive Monitoring Techniques, Mr. Demetris Trihinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 18, 2017, 10:00-11:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Real-time Adaptation to Time-Varying Constraints for Reliable mHealth Video Communications, Mr. Zinonas C. Antoniou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 09:00-10:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Efficient Image Representations Using Multiscale AM-FM Decompositions Derived from Multiple Gabor Filterbanks, Mr. Ioannis Constantinou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 11, 2017, 10.00-11.00 EET.

PhD Defense: Architectural and Software Support for Data-driven Execution on Multi-core Processors, Mr. George Matheou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, November 27, 2017, 12:00-13:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Task Data-flow Execution on Many-core Systems, Andreas Diavastos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, November 13, 2017, 09:00-10:00 EET.

PhD Defense: SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOW SYSTEMS AND MULTI-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR LIFE SCIENCES INFORMATICS, Mr. Christos Kannas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, June 6, 2017, 10:00-11:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Extending Structural and Functional Properties of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Maria Papaioannou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Clustering Attributed Multi-Graphs, Mr. Andreas Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, April 27, 2017, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Presentation: A Self-Organizing Distributed and In-band Software-Defined Network Control Plane, Mr. Ιosif Salem (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: mIDS: a Lightweight Intrusion Detection System for Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things, Christiana Ioannou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Wednesday, January 25, 2017, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Integrating Temporal Abstraction with Bayesian Networks: A Validation in the field of Coronary Heart Disease, Kalia Orphanou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, February 3, 2017, 10:30-11:30 EET.

Presentation: Why is my Roomba trying to kill my cat? The need to build transparent machines, Mr. Andreas Theodorou (University of Bath, UK), Wednesday, January 18, 2017, 12:00-13:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Context-aware Recommendation-based Educational Tool for enhancing the High Level Software Modelling Process with Design Patterns, Mr. Georgios Sielis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, November 17, 2016, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Presentation: Storage, Processing and Reliability on Google's Distributed Systems, Mr. Neophytou Constantinos (Google, UK), Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 15:00-16:00 EET.

Workshop: Google Interview Workshop @ University of Cyprus, Mr. Constantinos Neophytou (Google, UK), Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 16:00-18:00 EET.

Presentation: Storage, Processing and Reliability on Google's Distributed Systems, Mr. Neophytou Constantinos (Google, UK), Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 15:00-16:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Improving Content Delivery with OSN-Awareness, Irene Kilanioti (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, October 3, 2016, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Presentation: The ARM University Program, Mr. Georgios Klokkaris (ARM, United Kingdom), Thursday, September 22, 2016, 16.30-18.30 EET.

Seminar: Knowledge, economic factors and the professionalization of successful Open Source project., Mr. Frederik Kramer (initOS GmbH and Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany), Friday, June 3, 2016, 12:00-13:00 EET.

Tutorial: Graph Partitioning in Distributed Graph Computation, Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States), Thursday, June 2, 2016, 10:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Optimization of Human Resource Management and Project Planning in Software Development, Constantinos Stylianou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, May 27, 2016, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Adaptive and Dynamic Argumentation, Mr. Evgenios Hadjisoteriou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, May 20, 2016, 10:30-11:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Cognitive Computing, Mr. Kyriacos Kokkinos (IBM Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 18:00-19:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Adaptive Usable Security: Personalizing User Authentication and CAPTCHA based on Individual Differences in Cognitive Processing, Marios Belk (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 14, 2015, 11:00-12:00 EET.

Seminar: AdaM: an Adaptive Monitoring Framework for Sampling and Filtering on IoT Devices, Mr. Demetris Trihinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, October 23, 2015, 15:00-16:00 EET.

Presentation: Analysis of Evolution, Dynamics and Vulnerabilities of Twitter, Mrs. Despoina Antonakaki (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, October 5, 2015, 15:00-16:00 EET.

Presentation: Security and Privacy issues in Online Social Networks, Mr. Panagiotis Ilia (University of Crete, Greece), Monday, September 28, 2015, 15:00-16:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Studies in Reinforcement Learning and Adaptive Neural Networks, Mr. Vassilis Vassiliades (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 09:30-10:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Understanding the neural code through exploration of the causes of firing, Mr. Achilleas Koutsou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, June 26, 2015, 17:00-18:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Distributed Traffic Information Systems Based on V2X Communication in Large-Scale Urban Environments, Mr. Nicholas Loulloudes (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, June 25, 2015, 11:00-12:00 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Pattern Recognition, Prof. Nicolai Petkov (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Thursday, April 2, 2015, 15:00-17:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Advances in SAT-Based Planning, Mr. Andreas Sideris (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, February 19, 2015, 09:30-10:30 EET.

Seminar: Evolution of Online Social Networks and the Ecology of the Digital World, Mr. Kaj Kolja Kleineberg (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain), Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 12:00-13:00 EET.

Presentation: Visual Dance Performance for Interactive Characters, Dr. Andreas Aristidou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 12:00-13:30 EET.

Seminar: Variability in Deca-Nanometer Nodes: Opportunities for Modeling and Mitigation, Mr. Dimitrios Rodopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 17:00-18:00 EET.

MSc Defense: The Evolution of Information Security - from Computer Security to Information Assurance and Future Challenges, Mr. Pavel Christofi (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, September 19, 2014, 13:30-14:30 EET.

MSc Defense: Monitoring Elastically Adaptive Cloud Services, Mr. Demetris Trihinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, September 18, 2014, 10:00-12:00 EET.

Presentation: Designing a Large-scale, Distributed, Reliable Email system: The Gmail Story, Mr. Constantinos Neophytou (Google, UK), Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 13:00-14:00 EET.

Seminar: The Role of Cannabinoids in Learning and Memory: A theoretical neuroscience approach, Dr. Margarita Zachariou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, April 28, 2014, 18:00-19:00 EET.

Seminar: The Docear Academic Literature Suite and its Recommender System, Mr. Joeran Beel (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and Docear, Germany), Friday, April 4, 2014, 16:30-17:45 EET.

PhD Defense: The Simulation of Virtual Crowds and their Contribution to Presence in Immersive Virtual Environments, Mr. Marios Kyriakou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, February 27, 2014, 10:00-11:00 EET.

PhD Defense: An Intrusion Recovery Security Framework in Wireless Sensor Networks, Mrs. Eliana Stavrou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, February 17, 2014, 09:00-10:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Data-Driven Techniques for Virtual Crowds, Mr. Panayiotis Charalambous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 16, 2013, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Seminar: A computational formal model of the invasiveness of eastern species in European water frog populations, Mr. Pasquale Bove (University of Pisa, Italy), Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 11:00-12:00 EET.

Seminar: Laban Movement Analysis: A Bayesian Computation Approach to Hierarchical Motion Analysis and Learning, Mr. Luis Santos (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 11:00-12:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Wireless Sensor Networks Mobility Management: A Performance Control Approach, Mr. Zinon Zinonos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, July 15, 2013, 09:30-10:30 EET.

Presentation: Body-scanning in Fashion and Fitness, Surna Goonatilake (Bodymetrics Ltd., UK), Monday, June 10, 2013, 15:00-16:00 EET.

Seminar: Quaestio-it.com – A social intelligent debating platform, Mr. Valentinos Evripidou (Imperial College London, UK), Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 11:00-12:00 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Big Data - What Is It?, Dr. Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 16:30-18:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Enabling Smart Homes Using Web Technologies, Mr. Andreas Kamilaris (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 17, 2012, 09:30-10:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Information Dissemination In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Mr. Andreas Xeros (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, November 26, 2012, 10.00-11.00 EET.

Seminar: Algorithmic Mechanisms for Reliable Internet-based Master-Worker Computing, Chryssis Georgiou and Evgenia Christoforou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 18.00-20.00 EET.

PhD Defense: Performance Aware Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks using Resource Control, Charalambos Sergiou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, October 25, 2012, 09.30-10.30 EET.

PhD Defense: Interactive Diffuse Global Illumination Discretization Methods for Dynamic Environments, Sakis Gaitatzis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, July 2, 2012, 10:30-11:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Session Types - Μια Θεωρία για την Κατανομή του Υπολογισμού, Dimitrios Kouzapas (Imperial College London, UK), Thursday, April 26, 2012, 15:00-16:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Cache Content Duplication, Marios Kleanthous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, April 6, 2012, 10:30-11:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: How to Learn to Read (If You Are a Machine), Loizos Michael (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, March 22, 2012, 13.30-14.45 EET.

Seminar: Spam Value Chain: Defensive Intervention Analysis, Andreas Pitsillidis (University of California - San Diego, USA), Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 15:00-16:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Exploring Software Cost Modelling and Estimation with Computational Intelligence, Efi Papatheocharous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, December 19, 2011, 10:30-11:30 EET.

Seminar: Developing of Novel and Efficient Second-Order Learning and Optimisation Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction, Michalis Agathocleous and Petros Kountouris (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, 24 November 2011, 16:30-17:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Data-Driven Multithreading Virtual Machine, Samer Arandi (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, November 17, 2011, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Seminar: Mechanical Relaying Techniques for Green Cellular Networks, Panayiotis Kolios (King’s College London, UK), Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011, 13:00-14:00 EET.

Seminar: Seeking Fastness in Multiple-Writer Multiple-Reader Atomic Register Implementations, Dr. Nicolas Nicolaou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 18:00-19:00 EET.

PhD Defense: A Natural Language-based Methodology to Formalize and Automate the Requirements Engineering Process, Marinos Georgiades (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 09:00-10:00 EET.

Presentation: Monitoring Distributed Streams, Dr. Odysseas Papapetrou (Technical University of Crete, Greece), Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 11:30-12:00 EET.

Presentation: Entity Linkage for Heterogeneous and Uncertain Data, Dr. Ekaterini Ioannou (Technical University of Crete, Greece), Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 11:00-11:30 EET.

PhD Defense: KSpot+: A Network-aware Framework for Energy-Efficient Data Acquisition in Wireless Sensor Networks, Panayiotis G. Andreou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, May 23th, 2011, 16:00-17:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Diagnostically Resilient Encoding, Wireless Transmission, and Quality Assessment of Medical Video, Andreas Panayides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, May 20th, 2011, 15:00-16:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Discovering Disease Associated Gene-Gene Interactions: A Two SNP Interaction Analysis Framework, Athos Antoniades (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, May 20th, 2011, 09:00-10:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Computational Modeling of Visual Selective Attention, Kleanthis C. Neokleous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, May 13th, 2011, 13:00-14:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Radio Resource Management for Efficient Multicast Service Provision in 3rd Generation Mobile Cellular Networks, Christophoros Christophorou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, April 19th, 2011, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Microsoft Cloud Computing, Theodosis Theodosiou (Microsoft, Cyprus), Tuesday, Mar. 29th, 2011, 17:00-19:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Application Mediation, Stuart Mackenzie (FMT, USA), Tuesday, Mar. 22nd, 2011, 17:00-19:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), Michael Georgiou (National Bank of Greece, Cyprus), Friday, Mar. 18th, 2011, 18:00-19:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Oracle Architectural Components, Michael Georgiou (National Bank of Greece, Cyprus), Friday, Mar. 11th, 2011, 18:00-19:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Web of Things: Present state and future challenges, Prof. Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, Mar. 8th, 2011, 17:00-19:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Joint Strategic Actions for the Development of the ICT sector in Cyprus through Foreign Direct Investment, Panayiotis A. Michael (Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency, Cyprus), Wednesday, Mar. 2nd, 2011, 16:30-18:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Corporate Area Network of Telecommunication Companies, Panayiotis Ioannides (Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, Cyprus), Friday, Feb. 18th, 2011, 18:00-19:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Oracle Hands-On Tutorial, Norman Christopher (Oracle Corporation, Cyprus), Wednesday, January 19th, 2011, 13:00-14:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Time Based Personalization for the Wireless User, Christophoros Panayiotou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, Dec. 9th, 2010, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Seminar: On the Characterization of Network Traffic Dynamics, Angelos Marnerides (Lancaster University, UK), Wednesday, December 15th, 2010, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Seminar (PENEK Research Results): Understanding Self-Control through Computational Modelling of Internal Conflict, Aristodemos Cleanthous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, November 30th, 2010, 11:30-12:30 EET.

Presentation: Introducing Application Mediation, Stuart Mackenzie (FMT Worldwide, Cyprus), Wednesday, November 24th, 2010, 12:00-13:30 EET.

PhD Defense: In Search of Self-Control through Computational Modelling of Internal Conflict, Aristodemos Cleanthous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, October 29th, 2010, 9:30-10:30 EET.

Invited Course Lectures: Stochastic Neural Modeling and Data Analysis, Prof. Petr Lansky (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Tue-Wed, October 19-20, 2010, 15:00-18:00 EET - 15:00-18:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Real-Time High Quality HDR Illumination and Tonemapped Rendering, Despina Michael (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Thursday, July 15th, 2010, 9:00-10:00 EET.

Presentation: Innovative Microsoft Technologies, Dimitris Gkanatsios (Microsoft, Greece), Tuesday, June 29th, 2010, 15:00-16:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Speed Adaptive Information Dissemination in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, Yiannos Mylonas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, June 4th, 2010, 12:00-13:00 EET.

Seminar: Analyzing Network-wide Interactions on the Internet: A Novel Graph-based Approach, Mr. Marios Iliofotou (University of California - Riverside, USA), Monday, May 31st, 2010, 14:00-15:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Dynamic Workflows Development for Wireless Collaboration Network Based on Time and Context awareness in Medical Sector, Demosthenis Georgiadis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Wednesday, May 26th, 2010, 9:00-10:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Graph Design using Knowledge-driven, Self-adaptive Multi-Objective Evolutionary Graph Algorithms (MEGA), Christodoulos Nicolaou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, May 25th, 2010, 14:30-15:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Knowledge Mining through Rule Mining in Cardio-vascular Databases, Minas Karaolis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, May 25th, 2010, 09:00-10:00 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Robust Implementations of Atomic Read/Write Objects in Message-Passing Systems, Dr. Chryssis Georgiou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, March 23th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: The Implications of Cache-Content-Duplication on Shared Caches, Marios Kleanthous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, March 16th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Oracle Hands-On Tutorial, Norman Christopher (Oracle Corporation, USA), Friday, March 19th, 2010, 12:00-13:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Allocation and Admission Policies for Server Farms, Michelle Mazzucco (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, March 12th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Adaptive Methods for the Transmission of Video Streams in Wireless Networks, Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, March 9th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: GridStat Framework, Harald Gjermundrod (University of Nicosia, Cyprus), Friday, March 5th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Data Parallel Acceleration of Decision Support Queries Using Cell/BE and GPUs, Pedro Trancoso (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Computational Intelligent Diagnostic Systems, Christos Schizas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, February 26th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Usability of interactive systems: Current practices and challenges of its measurement, Panayiotis Zaharias (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, February 23th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Keyword Search and Ranking in Relational Databases: Object Summaries, Georgios Fakas (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, February 19th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Research Seminar: Size Complexity of Two-Way Finite Automata, Christos Kapoutsis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, February 16th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Rapid Creation of Photorealistic Large-Scale Urban City Models, Charis Poullis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, February 12th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Gredia Middleware Innovations, Dimitrios Tsoumakos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, February 9th, 2010, 15:00-16:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Cooperative Interactions in Converged Heterogeneous Communication Networks, Josephina Antoniou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, January 18th, 2010, 9:30-10:30 EET.

PhD Defense: Middleware-based Development of Context-aware Applications with Reusable Components, Nearchos Paspallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Wednesday, September 30th, 2009, 10:00-11:00 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Broadcast Scheduling Algorithms for Ad-hoc TDMA Networks, Dimitrios D. Vergados (University of Piraeus, Greece), Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009, 10:30-12:00 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Insect Visual Homing: Investigations of the Snapshot Model, Dr. Andrew Philippides (University of Sussex, UK), Monday, September 21th, 2009, 10:00-13:00 EET.

Invited Course Lecture: Neuromodulation in Artificial Neural Networks, Dr. Andrew Philippides (University of Sussex, UK), Friday, September 18th, 2009, 15:00-18:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Grid Computational Resource Performance Ranking and Auditing, Mr. George P. Tsouloupas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Monday, May 11th, 2009, 13:00 - 14:00 EET.

Presentation: Building Robust Enterprise Data Centers, Mr. Michele Mazzucco (University of Newcastle, UK), Monday, March 16th, 2009, 15:00 - 16:00 EET.

PhD Defense: Active Ontology: Information Dynamicity Management in a Large Scale Distributed System, Mr. Wei Xing (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, March 13th, 2009, 13:00 - 14:00 EET.

Demonstration: Digital Libraries and Tools for Organizing Bibliography, Mr. Louis Prokopiou (Library, University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, March 6th, 2009, 15:00 - 16:00 EET.

PhD Defense: The TFlux Parallel Processing Platform, Mr. Kyriakos Stavrou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Friday, January 24th, 2009, 11:00 - 12:00 EET.